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The government on Friday discussed measures to combat a potential future pandemic and decided to revise relevant laws to make it mandatory for core hospitals to provide medical services and beds to patients when infectious diseases break out or spread.

In this week’s newsletter: while films like Elvis and Nope have done reasonably well, the box office bounty we were promised hasn’t appeared – why?

Nearly 75% of shopping remains offline

Biden can't get $22B from the GOP to save lives. NASA's return to the moon will cost at least four times that much

The gold-standard measure of educational trends has the word “progress” in its name. But the National Assessment of Educational Progress unveiled Thursday showed nothing but slippage over the last two years. Students saw the largest average decline in reading since 1990 and the first drop in mathematics ever measured in…

Paxlovid goes from COVID game-changer to pandemic enigma

The platform, popular for adult content, saw a spike during the pandemic

After the disruption and trauma of the pandemic, educators say kids still need added support this year. In some schools, they're making emotional wellness part of the curriculum.

The measures brought in by the Budget will be similar to some of the initiatives introduced in response to the Covid-19 pandemic

Refurbishments and older offices can benefit from the need for flexibility, according to new report

This Labor Day, we’re thinking about the people who make our picnics possible. People like Marielena, who works in a poultry plant in North Carolina. More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the workers “do not have sufficient time to even disinfect our hands,” says Marielena.